In this video, Dan Olds and Rich Brueckner from Radio Free HPC discuss the latest news in High Performance Computing from the ISC 2015 conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
Highlights from the Show:
- ARM-based HPC was all over the showfloor, with servers based on the Cavium ThunderX processor. We want to see the benchmarks.
- Inspur plans to build a manufacturing plant in the USA.
- Bo Ewald says it’s very early for Quantum Computing, but D-Wave Systems is making headway. The company was able to speed up one test application by 10,000X!
- Sugon has designs to expand from China into greater Asia and Russian server markets.
- Tsinghua in China has made a bid to buy Micron for $24 Billion. As one of the major memory manufacturers for the HPC market, Micron has some interesting products in the pipeline centered around their Automata processor.
- IBM was showing a prototype node for their Coral systems based on OpenPOWER.
- The COSMOS team from Cambridge were showing a cosmology application running on alpha-version Intel Knights Landing hardware, including the Omni-Path interconnect.
- The JMI team from India broke the LINPACK record at the Student Cluster Competition.
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